
Philip Abbosh, MD, PhD
Currently:
Assistant Professor, Fox Chase Cancer Center
Temple Health
Class of 2006
Mentor: Ken Nephew
Dissertation: "Novel Approaches to Treat Undifferentiated Thyroid Cancers"

Amrita Ahluwalia, PhD
Class of 2001
Mentor: Ken Nephew
Dissertation: "DNA Methylation and Gene Expression Patterns in Ovarian Cancer"

Nicholas Berry, PhD
Currently:
Senior Oncology Medical Science Liaison at Exelixis
Class of 2008
Mentors: Ken Nephew
Dissertation: "Regulation of Estrogen Receptor Alpha Ubiquitination and Proteasome-mediated Receptor Degradation"

Justin Budka, PhD
Currently:
Research Scientist at Kite Pharma
Class of 2018
Mentor: Pete Hollenhorst
Dissertation: "Elucidating Oncogenic and Tumor Suppressive Functions of ETS Transcription Factors in Prostate Cancer"

Ning Ding, PhD
Currently: Scientist I at Biogen RTP
Class of 2018
Mentors: Heather O'Hagan and Ken Nephew
Dissertation: "Linking JAK2 kinase and mismatch repair proteins to oxidative damage-induced epigenetic alterations"

Kathleen Hertzer, PhD
Currently:
Surgeon, Placerville, CA
Class of 2008
Mentor: Claire Walczak
Dissertation: "Mechanistic Analysis of the Microtubule Depolymerizing Kinesin MCAK"

Myint Hlaing, PhD
Currently:
Biotechnology Professional, Sunnyvale, CA
Class of 1999
Mentor: Ken Nephew
Dissertation: “Comparative Study of Nuclear Receptor Coactivator and Corepressor Gene Expression in the Mammalian Reproductive Tract”

Stephan Husted, PhD
Currently:
Study Design Lead, Covance
Class of 2015
Mentor: Claire Walczak
Dissertation: "Anti-MCAK inhibitors: Discovery through Development of Image and FRET assays"

Susan Kline Chang, PhD
Currently:
CEO, Susan Chang Consulting, LLC
Class of 2004
Mentor: Claire Walczak
Dissertation: "MCAK Regulation of Microtubule Dynamics and Organization of the Interphase Array and Mitotic Spindle and Kinetochore Attachments in Cells"

Xinghua Long, PhD
Currently:
Associate Professor
School of Biotechnology
Wuhan University
Class of 2008
Mentor: Ken Nephew
Dissertation: "Role of Estrogen Receptor-alpha-interacting Cytokeratins and Antiestrogenic Activity of Fulvestrant"

Nicole Nickerson, PhD
Currently:
Project Director, Lonza, Portsmouth, NH
Class of 2012
Mentor: Ken Nephew
Dissertation: "Transforming Growth Factor Beta Signaling in Growth of Estrogten-Insensitive Metastic Bone Lesions"

Jessica Tang, PhD
Currently:
Senior Scientist at Natera, Inc. San Francisco, CA
Class of 2018
Mentor: Ken Nephew
Dissertation: "Epigentic targeting of Adipocytes Inhibits High-grade Serous Ovarian Cancer Cell Migration and Invasion"

Yinu Wang, PhD
Currently: Post-doctoral researcher at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Class of 2016
Mentor: Ken Nephew
Dissertation: "Epigenetic targeting of Ovarian Cancer Stem Cells"

Hsin-Jung Wu, PhD
Currently:
Scientist, Xilio Therapeutics, Inc.
Class of 2015
Mentor: John Foley
Dissertation: "Estrogen receptor alpha-mediated control of growth factor production from nipple fibroblasts"

Xingyue Zong, PhD
Currently:
Senior Scientist, Fate Therapeutics, San Deigo, CA
Class of 2020
Mentor: Ken Nephew
Dissertation: "Targeting a DAB2IP in ovarian cancer stem cells"